Earth didn’t exactly shake when the New York Yankees announced that they would allow their players to wear beards. However, the change in the half-century-old policy ...

But it isn’t. Ours is, alas, a more masculine era, aggressive and angry. I hope the new affection for beards doesn’t make things worse. One last note. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that I ...

beards on the Yankees players (if a bit late). If I did not know better, I would think it was still the 1970s. However, it is not. Ours is, alas, a more masculine era, aggressive and angry. I hope the ...

Some fear that the revival represents nostalgia for a lost masculine ideal, or maybe, as Yankees managing general partner Hal ... During the 19th century, the European monarchies associated beards ...